The detailed document marshals moral principles and strategic arguments
in a counterstrike at the heart of U.S. military doctrine.
Noting that NATO strategy threatens a first use of tactical nuclear
weapons if the Soviet Union invades Central Europe, it proclaims, "We
do not perceive any situation in which the deliberate initiation of
nuclear warfare, on however restricted a scale, can be morally
justified." Speaking to those who work in nuclear arms factories, it
instructs, "We have judged immoral even the threat to use such
weapons." Ethical...